Teachers striking on 5th October!

[IwishIwasmoreorganised]

We've had a letter home today saying that some teachers in ds's school will be on strike on 5th October. Luckily neither of our ds's classes are affected.

I thought that public sector workers were being balloted over striking on 30th November about the proposal to change their pensions again, but I kew nothing about the 5th October.

Anybody else affected by this?

I freely admit that NUT is the first union I have ever joined, and I worked in teh civil service and public service for years.
I only did it as I wanted free stuff for £1 a term. Might change my mind once I'm not an NQT and have to pay for it...

Sqounge read up about the different unions (there are more than the public realise!) and decide which is the best fit for you.

Most teachers go with the union that is stringest in their school (broadly speaking NUT are stronger in primary, NASUWT in secondary and ATL in HE/FE but each school is individual)

*strongest even

I joined the ATL as a student (although they were called something else back then) because I felt sorry for the rep ...

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6890538.ece

One in three teachers has been falsely accused of misconduct by a pupil, a survey suggests.

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) said that school staff are having their careers blighted by malicious allegations. One in six teachers has been falsely accused by a parent or other member of a pupil?s family.

And it is very easy for the pupil to do as proved on Channel 4 the other night, luckily for that teacher the school had CCTV.

Good grief!

This thread was never intended to become another teacher bashing one!

Thanks for those of you who found out that it is the Welsh Teachers Union who are striking on 5th October. I'm still going to double check on Tuesday (just in case there is anything juicy going on in school!).

FWIW, I work in the NHS and my union (not the TUC) is likely to ballot us all regarding potential strike action on November 30th. At this stage it looks likely that we would vote to strike. This is unheard of for us as a profession but the current proposals are too preposterous to accept without a fight.

I checked this morning and the strike is by teachers in a particular (welsh) union protesting about the proposed pension changes.

I guess the rest will be off on November 30th.

Are many people affected today?

Nobody?

It's barely been on the main News either.

It was only welsh speaking schools affected AFAIK, all over the enws ehre, but then I live in wales.